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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jamie Grierson

Sunak’s maths to 18 plan ‘misguided’, says man asked to promote it

Maths teacher writing on chalkboard
Rishi Sunak said an ‘anti-maths mindset’ was hampering efforts to improve numeracy. Photograph: Zave Smith/Getty Images

Downing Street has reportedly ditched a campaign to promote Rishi Sunak’s “maths to 18” policy after officials obtained only one case study – a film-maker who believes the proposal to be “misguided” and “tone deaf”.

The prime minister’s office appears to have left it until the last minute to seek endorsements from people across British industry for a social media push, the Times reports. Stephen Follows, a leading film data analyst, was approached on Friday, three days before the PM relaunched the policy with a speech in London.

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